About the film
- Directed by
- Tamara Jenkins
- Released
- August 14, 1998
- Certification
- R
- Country
- United States of America
- Starring
- Natasha Lyonne, Alan Arkin, Marisa Tomei, Eli Marienthal, David Krumholtz
More credits
- Language
- English
- Origin
- US
- Studios
- South Fork Pictures
- Written by
- Tamara Jenkins
- Produced by
- Michael Nozik, Stan Wlodkowski, Robert Redford
- Cinematography
- Tom Richmond
- Music
- Rolfe Kent
- Also starring
- Kevin Corrigan, Jessica Walter, Mena Suvari, Carl Reiner, Harris Laskawy
- Budget
- $5,000,000
- Box office
- $5,502,773
A broke father can't afford Beverly Hills, but is determined to send his three kids to the best public schools. So they become nomads, packing up in the middle of the night and slipping out of one cheap apartment into the next, never leaving the school district.
SLUMS OF BEVERLY HILLS (1998) is Tamara Jenkins telling the story of her own childhood. She grew up exactly this way, and made her first film about it, with a little help from Robert Redford's Sundance.
Natasha Lyonne plays fifteen-year-old girl Vivian, navigating her changing body, her hopeless-hopeful father (a wonderful Alan Arkin), and the arrival of her cousin Rita (Marisa Tomei), a glorious agent of chaos fresh out of rehab.
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Wonderful movie. I still want to live in an LA dingbat because of it 😉
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Underrated movie that came from a great era.
Good movie 🎬
It’s streaming on American Prime currently
“Slums of Beverly Hills” one of my all time favorite movies! Have it on DVD.
Caught it in the theater when it came out. Funny flick, and Tomei is great as the “cool Aunt”.
Love this movie